A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine from work invited me over to this open mic that was going to be taking place in a pub at Gravesend. At the time I wasn't really sure if I was going to go because I didn't know if I was going to be able to get supervision over my kids, I didn't know what my family was doing and I guess it was a little bit short notice. Really and truthfully though, in this industry short notice could be as short as no notice: you get a call on the day, can you perform or not? Okay cool see in you a few hours.
Fast forward to now and I'm actually contemplating going, but at the same time because I'm a rap artist and not a pub singer or a rock 'n' roll drummer I'm here thinking about how I'm going to be able to apply myself in a setting that isn't really used to having an artist from an urban scene. In other words it's basically not my type of crowd.
My strategy is to go in there with a couple of songs that are usually performed with the instrumental playing in the background, except this time around I'm going to be performing them acappella and see if I can win the crowd using the sound of my voice alone.
I'm not exactly the most informed person when it comes to pub performances, but there was something that I saw from the Netflix series Peaky Blinders that gave me the impression that pub performances are actually held quite dearly within British culture and actually go back a couple of years (Maybe decades if not centuries).
If I keep my performances as candid and as honest and as possible, I reckon I might actually get a good chance. I'm still going to try and perform something that's a little bit more urban right at the end because the fact that audiences from pubs are usually used to listen to something there's a little bit more acoustic, they may appreciated being warmed up with a few acapellas.
Either way for better or worse and wishing myself good luck, and I'm ready to see how it goes.
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